Here's a place where I can post my thoughts on new papers, provide updates on my projects, and post info that will eventually be on my website The Theropod Database - http://theropoddatabase.com/ . It will center on theropods, but may delve into other topics as well such as phylogenetics.

Monday, July 2, 2012

Silently combining taxa

Just a brief rant today. Senter et al.'s (2012) Yurgovuchia paper includes Linheraptor codings in its Tsaagan OTU, and the fairly complete IGM 100/99 and 100/120 codings in its Parvicursor OTU. Would have been nice to at least mention this in the Methods section so that I now don't have to go back and delete those Tsaagan codings I thought were due to Senter examining it firsthand but were actually from a genus which has never even had its synonymy defended. grr...